The training course is an annual activity, implemented since 2013, to improve the capacity of teaching Vietnamese for teachers abroad. This year, the number of participants is the largest ever, with nearly 60 people from 13 countries and territories around the world such as Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Taiwan (China), Switzerland, Czech Republic, Spain, France, Italy, Belarus, Germany, Hungary, Malaysia, etc.
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At the invitation of the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese, this year, the Faculty of Vietnamese Studies and Vietnamese Language has 3 experts participating in teaching this course, namely Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thien Nam (Head of the Faculty of Vietnamese Studies and Vietnamese Language), Associate Professor, Dr. Vu Van Thi (Head of the Department of Vietnamese Linguistics, Faculty of Vietnamese Language and Literature), Dr. Nguyen Thi Thuan (Head of the Department of Comparative and Contrastive Studies, Faculty of Vietnamese Language and Literature). The course content focuses on: Methods of teaching and teaching Vietnamese; Vietnamese phonetics and methods of teaching Vietnamese phonetics; Vietnamese vocabulary and methods of teaching Vietnamese words; Vietnamese grammar and methods of teaching Vietnamese grammar; Introduction to Vietnamese language teaching textbooks...
In addition to the main activities such as improving professional qualifications and exchanging teaching methods, students also participate in a number of other practical activities such as observing classes at schools in Vietnam and visiting famous landscapes and landscapes of the country.
Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thien Nam presented a paper at the seminar.
Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thien Nam shared: This is an extremely meaningful activity of the Overseas Vietnamese Community and the Ministry of Education and Training, because for the overseas Vietnamese community, Vietnamese is an important bridge to the homeland and country. Through Vietnamese, culture and national identity will be preserved and promoted in Vietnamese communities around the world. Therefore, for many years, the Faculty's lecturers have always accompanied the program, with the desire to bring the most basic, necessary and updated knowledge and methods of teaching Vietnamese to overseas lecturers.
Experts from the Faculty of Vietnamese Studies and Vietnamese Language, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi have been accompanying this program for several years. The teachers are responsible for the professional content of the training course.
He also said that teaching Vietnamese abroad is currently limited. With about 4.5 million overseas Vietnamese, the number of people learning Vietnamese is still small. Not being directly "immersed" in the daily Vietnamese environment makes teaching and learning Vietnamese even more difficult. Textbooks for teaching Vietnamese abroad are also limited, the number of Vietnamese teachers who meet the needs is still limited, and the classification of Vietnamese proficiency levels is still confusing...
In that context, in 2015, experts from the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, with the core being the Faculty of Vietnamese Studies and Vietnamese Language, carried out the task assigned by the Ministry of Education and Training, which was to deploy and complete the Vietnamese language competency framework for foreigners. This is a 6-level competency framework, approved by the Ministry of Education and Training on September 1, 2015 and effective from October 16, 2015. This competency framework is used as a basis for unified assessment of Vietnamese language proficiency of foreigners; as a basis for developing programs, teaching plans, compiling or selecting learning materials, and developing testing and evaluation criteria at each level of education and training. Based on this, teachers and lecturers select and deploy content, teaching methods, testing and evaluation to support learners in achieving the requirements of the training program. The use of this competency framework also has important implications for promoting cooperation, educational exchange, and recognition of diplomas and certificates with countries using the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).
Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen Thien Nam answers media interviews about teaching Vietnamese abroad
Along with this competency framework, the Faculty of VNH&TV has also compiled a 6-level Vietnamese language test format, which was signed and issued by the Ministry of Education and Training on June 21./2016. From now on, learning and assessing Vietnamese language proficiency in Vietnam as well as around the world will have a standard framework to apply.
Also at the discussion on the current status of Vietnamese language research and teaching - an activity within the framework of the training course - Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen Thien Nam and Master Dao Kien Quoc (Hanoi National University) presented the "Project to enhance online Vietnamese language teaching for overseas Vietnamese". The discussion also contributed to support an inevitable trend of Vietnamese language teaching today, which is online teaching, with undeniable advantages. These are the experiences that the University's experts have drawn from when implementing the topic "Building a software system to teach Vietnamese for foreigners at Hanoi National University".
This year, nearly 60 delegates from 13 countries and territories attended the training course - the largest number ever.
According to the plan, the students of the course will have a class observation and professional exchange session at the Faculty of VNH&TV on Monday morning (August 15, 2016).
Author:Thanh Ha-Thanh Long
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